The question is, does this card become a better value than the 690 and the Titan if the upcoming drivers do in fact fix crossfire? The PC per follow up article with the beta driver showed the 7990 having higher perceived framerates than titan and gtx690 with the crossfire fix running?
How much faster does it need to be to justify the added power consumption? (I'd still prefer 2x79xx's)
The problem with this is the amount of heat build up with quadfire would be far higher and far harder to manage. The performance would be much greater though.
If AMD had released this at $800 or even $850 it would have given GTX690 a much better fight. Right now AMD are frankly taking the piss with the pricing because they obviously feel it is the equal of GTX690 and it isn't. If the prototype drivers were not ready for public consumption then 7790 should have been kept under wraps.
It's possible, fixed drivers and a $100 price drop might do it.
The problem with this is the amount of heat build up with quadfire would be far higher and far harder to manage. The performance would be much greater though.
If AMD had released this at $800 or even $850 it would have given GTX690 a much better fight. Right now AMD are frankly taking the piss with the pricing because they obviously feel it is the equal of GTX690 and it isn't. If the prototype drivers were not ready for public consumption then 7790 should have been kept under wraps.
So, I found something rather interesting. Someone on my usual forum asked me if I was having negative scaling in CFX with a few games from the Malta TPU review. Since I had two of the games on hand I tested them. I didn't take screen shots for WoW, but I can if I have to. I have >80% scaling in WoW with my CFX Radeons. Here is my post to him in regards to Batman: AC
I don't know what's different from my rig and the rigs used to test some of these games. I only used that article/site since that is the one the friend asked me about, but I'm going to guess other sites show zero/negative scaling for WoW/Batman: AC.
I'm also using old drivers, I have't updated my drivers yet.
We fully agreed on this point many posts ago, i hardly see anyone defending the 7990 as a good product. In fact, at its current price, its outright terrible.
Then again, both the 690 and Titan is obscenely overpriced. It just so happens the 7990 is worse. heh
CPU bottleneck?
On their rigs? Or mine? I doubt theirs, they use better CPUs than me, and if mine is CPU Bottlenecking why am I getting any scaling when they are getting zero scaling?
If it really is down to what Blackened said, odd that they use such an outdated build of a game.
Agreed. 17 months after the 7970, with nothing new is a joke at $1000. They are taking advantage of duopoly pricing to the max. (btw 7990 not 7790 unless you know something about the 7790 that I don't)
What is AMD thinking releasing the 7990? They should have stuck to their plan of not releasing an official 7990.
What is AMD thinking releasing the 7990? They should have stuck to their plan of not releasing an official 7990.
I think it's a halo thing. For the longest time they had the fastest single GPU, with the 7970, and it didn't bother them that they didn't have the fastest single card. Titan changed that and they didn't have anything to directly compete with it. The 7990 gives them the fastest single card crown back.
OK, so what the heck are they going to do with this crown?
Halo product role is to reaffirm the brand name; it's an evidence to public about company prowess in extreme engineering.
The problem here being that 7990 chose a really bad moment to be tested, because majority of reviewers are moving away from raw fps, and are actually paying attention to gameplay/fluidity in multi-GPU test.
So 7990 wins no mind-share back, not among enthusiasts, press, investors, it even leaves it's kookiest fanbase flatfooted.
What this card really does, it only reaffirms AMD's #2 position in GPU market.
In essence it's no biggie; AMD wasted few dollars, but more importantly missed opportunity.
13.5b2 skyrim test,good perf inc.-
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Radeon-Hardware-255597/Tests/Catalyst-135-Skyrim-1066898/
update:just installed 13.5B2(without 13.4 cap1) and first playing crysis 3 maxed out(smaa 4x),nearly increased 25-30% performance and much much smoother than 13.3 beta 3!!!,and custom profile set with radeon pro as always.Performance increase and so smooth,it's simply a joy ride with crysis 3 now...thx amd
Sounds good. Are they still making crossfire profiles as Caps? I thought they were doing away with that?
Yes 13.4 cap 1 mainly for CFX profile..
FYI, AMD beta drivers have the CAPS included in the package. They will override any stand alone CAP installation.
That's what I thought. Are the WQHL drivers going to require caps?
It's recommended you install the cap:13.5 beta2 with 13.4 cap1